# Cross Stitch: Pixel Art — user reviews > 34 indexed App Store user reviews of Cross Stitch by 尚辉 曾, rated 4.70/5 from 677 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cross-stitch-pixel-art/id6446945308/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cross-stitch-pixel-art/id6446945308.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 570 · 4★ 45 · 3★ 26 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 26 ## What do users think of Cross Stitch? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful and varied picture selection - 👍 User-friendly difficulty level options - 🎯 Relaxing and stress-relieving gameplay - 🌈 Multiple color variations available - 📦 Pictures grouped by category for easy browsing - 🎮 Engaging cross-stitch mechanics **Cons** - 📺 Excessive and overwhelming ads - 💰 Paywall blocks most content without purchase - 🐛 Completed artwork doesn't display correctly - 🔧 Broken ad system prevents earning beans - 📱 Side menu takes up unnecessary screen space - 🔤 Text/pattern letters too small for accessibility - ❌ Limited picture variety and frequent repetition - 📞 No developer contact or customer support - 🎯 Intrusive pop-ups and gamification elements - 🖼️ Poor contrast between white and light grey colors **Commonly reported bugs** - Completed pictures show as incomplete - Pattern won't open after app update - Ads not loading, preventing bean collection - In-progress photos don't update accurately - Clicking wrong cell triggers error messages - Artwork doesn't load properly - Repeated pictures appear even after deletion - One-finger drag causes unwanted zoom - Unclear meaning of 'L1' indicator on completed pictures **Most requested features** - Add more pictures and expand content library - Implement checkmarks for purchased and completed pictures - Option to minimize or hide side menu - Full-screen picture display mode - Add more cat breeds (Bengals) and horse pictures - Animation or reward upon project completion - Ability to delete completed pictures - Larger text/pattern sizes for accessibility - Restore previously removed pictures - Better in-progress photo accuracy ## Newest reviews (11 of 34) ### 4/5 — Won’t show completed artwork *2026-03-11* Love the app but no matter what I, my pictures show incomplete. Not sure if I’m getting the credit for completed pictures. ### 3/5 — Beautiful options *2025-01-25* I absolutely adore the selection of photos, so much that I did subscribe. I love that you can choose your difficulty and I love the pictures being grouped together so that when you click on it, you have even more options. It’s like a little surprise. However, I LOATHE the menu on the side. It takes up so much unnecessary space and is annoying. This would be 5 stars if we had the option to minimize it. ### 3/5 — Cross stitch color *2025-01-13* I love all the choices of pictures. However, I don’t like how once I purchase pictures, it doesn’t show me which ones I’ve purchased and so I can’t remember and it doesn’t show which ones I’ve done already. There should be a check mark or something by pictures I have already colored. ### 3/5 — Needs animation upon completion *2024-11-17* Would rather not see the colored picture when choosing picture. There should be some element at the end that gives the user something to look forward to. ### 3/5 — Deleting completed pictures *2024-09-22* How do you delete completed pictures? **Developer response:** Thanks very much for your review.We will fix the issue in next version. L1 mean level 1 :-) ### 3/5 — Could be better. Room to improve needs more pictures. Horses *2024-09-03* Would be nice. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, we will add more pictures in next version. ### 3/5 — Could be better *2024-08-18* I really enjoy this game. I like that you can choose the size you want to color. I like that you can see the number remaining of the colors. My only complaint is that you can’t hide the menu. It takes up so much space and is very annoying. It makes the coloring spaced so small with that on the side. If that was gone this app would be 5 stars. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback and suggestions. We will add this feature as soon as possible after evaluation. ### 3/5 — Good game *2024-08-11* The ads aren’t working so the wheel doesn’t work. **Developer response:** Hi Buddyshimp, You can try turning on the tracking switch for this app. Setting->Cross Stitch->Allow Tracking ### 5/5 — Cross Stitch 2024 *2024-08-02* This Cross Stitch game is the best game to get rid all of your stress out & it helps to make you sleep better at night. ### 4/5 — Need more pictures *2024-07-12* I love the app but please, you need to upload more pictures!! Thank you. **Developer response:** Thanks very much for your review.We will fix the issue in next version. L1 mean level 1 :-) ### 5/5 — Problem *2024-07-09* Many of my completed pictures don’t update so they look incomplete even though I finished them. Very frustrating. Also, what does it mean when there is an L1 at the bottom of a completed picture? **Developer response:** Thanks very much for your review.We will fix the issue in next version. L1 mean level 1 :-) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — update today caused problems *2025-11-24* I use this app every day. today there was an update & now i can’t work on any of my projects. I click on them & the pattern won’t open. I tried to message the company using FB messenger and it doesn’t work. **Developer response:** Dear user, thank you for your feedback. You can send a screenshot of the issue to shaqzeng@icloud.com so we can fix it as soon as possible :-) ### 1/5 — really obnoxious ads *2024-12-06, version 2.3.1* the pictures are pretty though ### 1/5 — New issues *2024-11-10* Same free pictures over and over. Nothing has been updated. My art works do not load properly, numerous repeated pictures, come back even when deleted. Game ok, could be set up better. Picture should be full screen. No getting any of the beans I’m entitled to. No way to contact developer about app issues. Update: no response from developer, ads started working. Original Cross Stitch app has better variety of pictures but this app has more color variations. Both are fun apps. Back to my original issues but now it’s worse. Again no ads thus no way to get beans for new pictures….unless you subscribe. Third time no ads, no beans no way to get new pictures without them and still no response from the developer. **Developer response:** Hi Lynn&Teddyb, You can try turning on the tracking switch for this app to enable ads. Setting->Cross Stitch->Allow Tracking ### 1/5 — Ugh *2024-10-27* Letters pattern are way too small. I have eyesight issues and there’s no way I can complete a pattern without using a magnifying glass so this app is virtually useless to me and I can’t play it. Do better for people with disabilities ### 1/5 — Not able to see ads for my beans *2024-09-05* Game ok, could be set up better. Picture should be full screen. No getting any of the beans I’m entitled to. No way to contact developer about app issues. Update: no response from developer, ads started working. Original Cross Stitch app has better variety of pictures but this app has more color variations. Both are fun apps. Back to my original issues but now it’s worse. Again no ads thus no way to get beans for new pictures….unless you subscribe. Third time no ads, no beans no way to get new pictures without them and still no response from the developer. **Developer response:** Hi Lynn&Teddyb, You can try turning on the tracking switch for this app to enable ads. Setting->Cross Stitch->Allow Tracking ### 1/5 — Not able to see ads for my beans *2024-09-02* Game ok, could be set up better. Picture should be full screen. No getting any of the beans I’m entitled to. No way to contact developer about app issues. Update: no response from developer, ads started working. Original Cross Stitch app has better variety of pictures but this app has more color variations. Both are fun apps. Back to my original issues but now it’s worse. Again no ads thus no way to get beans for new pictures….unless you subscribe. ### 1/5 — Need more pictures *2024-01-12* Does not have pictures ### 2/5 — Could be Better App *2024-11-21, version 2.3.1* Jumped the gun on this one by paying $12.99. Firstly, not a lot of pics to choose from. Secondly, very annoying if you click on wrong cell and an error message comes up and lastly…the badges etc are annoying! Just wanted to use an app where you just cross stitch, and nothing more! Very annoying where things pop us where you are asked to spin to win, etc… unfortunately, cancelling my subscription., ### 3/5 — Beautiful BUT *2026-02-18* Love this app. Projects are really beautiful. But the ads are seriously overwhelming. Every 2 minutes you are forced to watch 3 ads. Just when your mind is beginning to relax; BANG! Those repetitive commercials. You know the ones those scam ads with the king and stupid bingo, roulette. So, 3 stars is all this one gets. ### 3/5 — Too many ads. *2025-05-01* Can’t even get through one pic. Shows ads for every 5% of completion. Bummer. Seemed cool. It’s a no. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Cross stitch *2026-02-15, version 2.5.0* I love this app so much ### 5/5 — Need more pictures *2026-02-09* Does not have pictures ### 5/5 — Pictures *2025-07-14* Now ### 5/5 — Nice pictures *2025-02-25* I like the variety of pictures, especially the landscapes. Having difficulty levels is good, but most cannot be played without cash purchase. Very sad! One easy improvement would be to make the contrast grey a little deeper. It is hard to see the difference between white and very light grey. Update I did pay the $10 for one month, and it was so much better coloring with smaller pixels and more colors. It might even be worth it to pay $69 one time, though that is high. But not annually! It is hard to go back to the large pixel coloring. I am stopping. ### 5/5 — Great Cross Stitch *2025-01-10, version 2.3.2* I like the variety of cross stitch on this game. You earn beans for getting more projects to work on. There is only one thing they can approve on. Beans buying other stitch patterns! ### 5/5 — Beans *2025-01-01* How long do you have to wait to collect Beans? The bombs and spin the wheel always says, ad not ready ? ### 5/5 — Cats *2024-10-31* Can you add more cats like Bengals ### 5/5 — Cross stitch *2024-09-29* They are not enough ads, so you can get your beans when due? ### 5/5 — Nice pictures *2024-09-20* I like the variety of pictures, especially the landscapes. Having difficulty levels is good, but most cannot be played without cash purchase. Very sad! One easy improvement would be to make the contrast grey a little deeper. It is hard to see the difference between white and very light grey. ### 5/5 — 5 Stars *2024-09-10, version 2.3.1* I love this game but on the advertising pictures why are there so many pictures I see there that I can't find on the game I would love it if you could add back every picture that you've had on it before to this app and not remove any ever --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*